How Do Pirates Escape Law Enforcement Agencies.

FACT report has found that pirates employ various methods to stay far away from the law.

What do pirates want?

Of course, they want to make a name for themselves and earn some money as well.

But is that all they want?

Nope.

It turns out, pirates aren’t just content with distributing content to millions of online users around the world.

And no, they don’t just want to run a super successful piracy website.

What most of the online pirates want is security.

And safety.

From whom?

From the law enforcement agencies that are out to get them.

Perhaps they should add copyright holder groups to the list as well.

Regardless, the point is, pirates want to secure their business interests against law enforcement agencies.

And for that to happen, pirates have to learn new techniques to stay ahead of the curve.

In other words, they must always be one step ahead of law enforcement authorities.

As mentioned before, there are other companies who also want to destroy pirates and their “evil” schemes as well.

So pirates also want to protect themselves against their plots too.

Dealing with similar issues, a recently published has surfaced and has detailed the role in the online world that social media platforms play in spreading and distributing unlicensed copyrighted content on the internet.

Anti-piracy organizations such as FACT have also come out and have revealed the key things online pirates make sure they do on a regular basis in order to avoid legal fines and possibly, if you’re in UK, jail.

By that FACt means the things online pirates do in order to hinder law enforcement agencies in their investigations.

Pirates And Their Good Work

Pirates also want to thrive. Hence they are always hard at work to fight against the law.

Any online pirate who runs a dedicated internet piracy website knows that people would start to come after his/her service once it attracts a set number of users.

Moreover, piracy websites that deal with fresh content or operate at a mass scale are pretty much guaranteed that law enforcement agencies are going to come knocking on their door.

And as mentioned before, pirates can also look forward to other players.

Other players such as copyright holder groups along with other anti-piracy outfits such as FACT.

All of these players, large or small, quick sniff out big players in the piracy industry.

And once they find their trial, they show a rather obscene amount of interest in their online activities.

And perhaps they should.

It is their money that the piracy websites are eating into.

So it is quite understandable why copyright holder groups along with piracy outfits are so eager to go after piracy websites.

Readers should also keep in mind that after all is said and done, pirates too are humans.

And that means they too have a brain with billions and billions of neurons.

As a result, pirates are always on the lookout for law enforcement agencies coming after them.

And since they know that sooner or later, someone is going to want to destroy what they have created, they try to preempt everybody within their own measures.

Hence, pirates of today know what they need to do in order to make sure that they enhance their online security enough to keep law enforcement agencies at bay.

Some of you might know products such as VPN services.

VPN service providers are all the rage these days.

Especially after copyright holder groups have knocked down some of the biggest piracy platforms in the world.

NO online pirate is safe without a VPN service provider.

Of course, your actual location and the laws in your region also play a big role in determining whether you get punished or not.

But from an overall perspective, most pirates use VPN services in order to hide their location and identity.

VPN service providers can do both at very economical rates.

So it is no wonder why consumers are so interested in knowing more about VPN service providers.

About That Weekly Report On Pirates And Piracy

As mentioned earlier as well, recent reports published in the media have detailed the type of challenges social media platforms pose to copyright holder groups as well as pirates.

In other words, pirates use social media platforms to infringe on intellectual property rights.

That’s not nice.

Right?

Well, depending on your current view, you may or may not agree with the above statement.

Regardless, the anti-piracy outfit in the UK by the name of Federation Against Copyright Theft doesn’t care.

It wants to get rid of piracy.

And to do that it has published a huge list of methods and techniques that pirates all over the world use in order to hinder law enforcement agencies and their investigative works.

So how should we start?

Let’s start with discussing each one of them until we start to see a pattern.

Pirates Use Hidden or Fake Online Website Registration Information

The best way to get away from the law is to lie. Cheating and stealing is optional

The Federation Against Copyright Theft has said in its report that website registrations, most of the time, are fake.

In other words, pirates provide fake information when they register their online portals.

That also means pirates are able to hide quite comprehensively from the get-go.

Because if the details are fake then law enforcement agencies have very little to connect a website with a person.

And since these pirates don’t provide links to the operators of the domain and all its illegal activities, pirates can dodge law enforcement agencies quite easily.

But what about WHOIS records?

Aren’t they reliable? Don’t they have protection?

Well, who doesn’t know about WHOIS?It isn’t something that is new.

Sometimes, if someone has the right skills, people can uncloak the information that WHOIS has on someone.

But usually, it involved a very determined and skilled adversary.

Moreover, that adversary has to make use of many court procedures in order to move forward.

But these techniques don’t really work in the beginning of any law enforcement agency’s investigations.

That’s why they use open records that provide them, or rather can provide them, with useful details.

Useful details that can help law enforcement agencies to build a clear early picture about who they are dealing with.

From there, they can get a sense of who may operate the website they are looking at.

So if a pirate can hide such information in any way possible, then that is a huge plus in staying away from law enforcement agencies.

Who is to say pirate site operators aren’t doing that right now?

Online pirates can further obfuscate things by faking underlying details.

Zohair is currently a content crafter at Security Gladiators and has been involved in the technology industry for more than a decade. He is an engineer by training and, naturally, likes to help people solve their tech related problems. When he is not writing, he can usually be found practicing his free-kicks in the ground beside his house.

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